The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.

E Bialystok - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some
extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep …

The effects of bilingualism on executive functions: An updated quantitative analysis

JG Grundy - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2020 - Springer
Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances

KR Paap, HA Johnson, O Sawi - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
The hypothesis that managing two languages enhances general executive functioning is
examined. More than 80% of the tests for bilingual advantages conducted after 2011 yield …

Meta-analysis reveals a bilingual advantage that is dependent on task and age

AT Ware, M Kirkovski, JAG Lum - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Debate continues on whether a bilingual advantage exists with respect to executive
functioning. This report synthesized the results of 170 studies to test whether the bilingual …

Is there a bilingual advantage on interference-control tasks? A multiverse meta-analysis of global reaction time and interference cost

S Donnelly, PJ Brooks, BD Homer - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
A contentious issue in contemporary psycholinguistics is whether bilingualism enhances
executive functions. Here, we report a meta-analysis of 80 studies (253 effect sizes) …

The language experience and proficiency questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Ten years later

M Kaushanskaya, HK Blumenfeld… - … : Language and Cognition, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q) is a validated
questionnaire tool for collecting self-reported proficiency and experience data from bilingual …

Are bilingual advantages dependent upon specific tasks or specific bilingual experiences?

KR Paap, HA Johnson, O Sawi - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Paap and Greenberg concluded that there is no coherent evidence for bilingual advantages
in executive processing. More optimistic researchers believe that the advantages may be …

Disparate bilingual experiences modulate task-switching advantages: A diffusion-model analysis of the effects of interactional context on switch costs

A Hartanto, H Yang - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
Drawing on the adaptive control hypothesis (Green & Abutalebi, 2013), we investigated
whether bilinguals' disparate interactional contexts modulate task-switching performance …

The bilingual advantage debate: Quantity and quality of the evidence

K Paap - The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The bilingual advantage hypothesis is difficult to test for many reasons and one is the
complexity of the executive functioning (EF) construct. The newest wave of meta‐anlayses …

No compelling evidence for a bilingual advantage in switching or that frequent language switching reduces switch cost

KR Paap, HA Myuz, RT Anders… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Participants completed three cued-switching tasks, responded to two category-fluency
probes, two letter-fluency probes, and two probes to alternate between two targets …